Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 24.5, Problem 24.5BCQ
All other things being the same, would the stockholders of a firm prefer to increase or decrease the volatility of the firm’s
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Explain whether the following statements are true or false. Justify your answer and solve both the parts of this question.
a) The income from bond is more uncertain compared to the income from shares
b) Managers want to maximize the intrisic value of the stock not the market price of the stock.
a. What is the relationship between the expected return of a stock and its fair expected return? When is a stock underpriced, overpriced, or fairly priced?
b. Explain what happens to the firm’s cost of equity, cost of debt, and cost of capital when the firm increases the amount of debt in its capital structure. Assume all Modigliani and Miller assumptions hold and that there are no taxes.
c. How can we use the internal rate of return to evaluate whether we should pursue a specific project? Should we pursue a project when the cost of capital is higher than the internal rate of return?
Given asymmetric information between investors and managers,
)How would investors interpret firm’s decision to finance through debt?
)How would investors interpret firm’s decision to finance through equity?
)How would investors interpret firm’s decision to buy back its equity?
)Given the signaling theory above, what is the implication on firm’s financing preference (hint: pecking order hypothesis)?
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
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